HoRAT. Serm. I. 10 (1-8). :i9 



writing odes or trying his hand at tragedy, 'Titius Romana 

 brevi venturus in ora.'** All that the scholiasts have to say 

 about him may very well have been derived from the text. 

 Thus Becker's theory seems to have very little support, 

 except Porphyrio's statement that Florus was a writer of 

 satires, and the fact that Titius and Florus were both 

 noblemen of a literary turn, and might be called 'equitum 

 doctissimi.' That either of them could be called ' gram- 

 maticorum equitum doctissimus ' is by no means apparent. 



' Loris et f unibus udis.' The mention of 'lora' and 

 'funes' suggests a rather savage treatment of the un- 

 known youth referred to in this line. References to the 

 use of 'funes' for the purpose of punishment are not very 

 numerous. Horace, however, has ' Hibericis peruste funi- 

 bus latus,'^ on which Orelli remarks that 'funes' made 

 from the Spanish broom were used for flogging the ma- 

 rines. No very satisfactory explanation of the word 'udis' 

 has ever been offered. It is not clear that savage masters 

 sometimes used a moistened lash, or that a lash so treated 

 would cause the victim more pain. Marx^" quotes Petro- 

 nius, 134 B, 'lorum in aqua,' as inconsistent with such ex- 

 planations. It is unfortunate that the wisdom of the 

 scholiasts was not brought to bear upon this word; their 

 comments would certainly have been interesting. 



Vss. 3-6. The changes in these three lines suggested by 

 F. Marx have been mentioned on page 35. First he empha- 

 sizes the importance of the word ' exoratus ' in the interpreta- 

 tion of this fragment, a word which is preserved by all the 

 best mss. of the third class. This word, he says, may here 

 be equivalent to 'though vainly implored for mercy,' like 

 'exorata' in Juvenal, 6, 415, ' vicinos humiles rapere et con- 

 cidere loris exorata solet."' Then reading 'puerum' for 

 'puer,' " as many earlier scholars have done, he looks about 



28Epp. 1.3,9. 



»£pod. 4, 3. 



^Rhein. Mas. XLI. p. 552. 



^' A similar use of 'exorare,' wliicli ho miplit liavo quoted, is fouud in Ilor. 

 Epp. 1. 1, 6, 'latot abditus agro, ne populum extroma toties exoret liarena.' With 

 tliis moatiiDg of ' exoret,' ' toties ' may be taken literally. 



*-'An easy chaugc palcographically. 



